The personal essay is something else altogether. The 2017-2018 Common Application essay prompts “are designed to invite unencumbered discussions of character and community, identity and ...

Despite the discussions around AI, the college essay isn’t going anywhere anytime soon; nothing can replace the authenticity ...

Think Outside the Box With Form. Writer Jamie Iredell suggests to rethink what you consider a "personal essay," especially in the age of the Internet.

Every year more than a million students use the Common Application, a standardized electronic form accepted by more than 1,000 colleges, to apply to college. And every year since 1976, the Common ...

Personal essays are alive and well today, just in a different form. The most exciting personal essays today, arguably, are being delivered via microphone and recorder. “First-person writing has long ...

Students submit SAT scores, grades, references, personal essays, and more, often without a clear sense of what counts most. The challenges facing college applicants today aren’t new.

Each essay in your book, How Far the Light Reaches, centers around one sea creature that then serves as a symbol for different stories from your personal experience.

Essays, after all, aren’t ex-cathedra edicts, they are personal, judgmental, suppositional. On a short trot, it’s the ride itself, not the destination, that matters. More from Book World ...